Progressive Spirit

Parker J. Palmer, Founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for

Courage & Renewal, is a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist who

focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and

social change. He has reached millions worldwide throug...

Matthew Fox. Silenced by the Vatican for his views, left the Catholic

priesthood in the early 1980s. Matthew Fox is a theologian and activist who

has written over 30 books. He has introduced millions of people to Creation

Spirituality. In 2016 he published A Way to God: ...

What is moral?  How has morality changed and how does that effect how we

make decisions and evaluate the decisions of others in politics, business,

and sex?   In Behaving Badly:  The New Morality in Politics, Sex and

Business. Eden Collinsworth embarks on a personal jour...

Victoria Price, author of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, discusses

with John Shuck her latest book, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My

Truest Self. 

Despite doing “all the right things” to successfully rebuild her life and

her finances after a period of de...

In this episode I take us back to 2012 for a re-broadcast of interviews with

Sarah Sentilles and Eugenie Scott. 

In the first part of today’s show, you will hear an interview that first

aired in January 2012 with Sarah Sentilles. Sarah Sentilles broke up with the

Creato...

In this episode I take us back to 2012 for a re-broadcast of interviews with

Michael Zimmerman and Barbara Kingsolver.

In the first part of today’s show, you will hear an interview that first

aired in February 2012 with Michael Zimmerman, the founder of the Clergy

Lette...

From the Progressive Spirit Archives, here are two interviews from 2012 and

2013.

Cultural Anthropologist, Carol Delaney discusses her book, Abraham on Trial:

The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth. Dr. Delaney explores the roots of

patriarchy by asking the question, what ...

Isaac Butler and Dan Kois take us backstage and behind the scenes of the

iconic play, "Angels In America" in their book, The World Only Spins

Forward: The Ascent of Angels In America. The book is an oral history,

telling the story of the play and its influence from the v...

Frances Shure is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is now retired from

her private practice and from her position as adjunct instructor at Naropa

University at Boulder, Colorado.

In her 20 years as a psychotherapist, she focused on "depth psychology,"

which involves bo...

Dr. Peter Carter is founder of the Climate Emergency Institute.  He has

served as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate

Change’s fifth climate change assessment in 2014. He has also presented on

the implications of global climate change on food se...